why should i stop smoking pot i am 28 and do it about three times a week?

Question

The truth is i am always working hard with teenage kids that are really taking crazy stuff to help them stop and have a life without drugs. and i feel like maybe that it is a contradiction to my lifestyle. i mean like with any thing in life you always have to be responsible. and i am ,i only smoke maybe about 3 times a week but i always hear about memory loss and lazyness,but i don't feel that it is afecting me in that way at all. it just helps me injoy food sex and relax with it a litle bit more.can someone out there please explain to me why i am wrong . scienticly if possable. thank you for time.

Answer 1

hmm, i also work with kids in rehab and enjoy smoking maybe once a month, but 3 times a week is a little much buddy. i understand how it can make certain things better, but you seem to be unable to enjoy them altogether without it, i would say you should start by decreasing your use, then try and save it for rare use, like hangin with a friend you havent seen in a while.

Answer 2

It is slightly hypocritical that you are some sort of social worker but you smoke pot. My parents sell marijuana and smoke it and cigarettes everyday, but i have gotten grounded for months at a time for doing the same things. I am now 17, and I continue to do these things, but I've gotten slightly (read: much) better at hiding my high.

Depending on how you use it and your body chemistry, you dlouhs be fine. I smoke it in the same ways that you do, to enjoy music, sex, long bus rides, nature, sex, etc. I also have severe anger problems (the reason I'm on here anyways, before this distracted me), and the only things that help me are drugs (marijuana, and less freqeunlty xanax, opiates), music, and.. pictures of baby animals.

I t'nod think there is anything wrong with you smoking weed habitually or occasionally. I smoke every day and I keep my grades up, make it to band practice, remain relatively responsible (in areas I care about), am still cognitively efficient, etc etc. Nah, keep smoking. Just don't make it a lifestyle. People that only talk about weed and only smoke weed are terribly inefficient, boring, and are no good.

The only time it gets a little hairy is my first hour in class, math. Ahaha. Just don't go see the kids while you're stoned.

And these people that are saying you are going to die, go to jail, become a comatose vegetable, etc; they are uneducated and no little to nothing about herb. Propaganda is propaganda.

Answer 3

OK here is a different opinion I think it's better than taking pills to relax. 3 times a week isn't gonna hurt you. Yes it is illegal, but so is people selling there Vicodin from the Dr on the streets. I understand what you are saying about your job just hope they don't drug test! As little as you smoke you're brain will be fine it's pot heads that sit around all day long smoking that lose it. If it feels good do it!

Answer 4

If I understood you correctly, you are 28, working with teenagers who are on drugs and trying to go through rehab? Don't you think that's a little hypocritical? Weed isn't the worst of the drugs that are out there..but you are in a position where you need to be at your best & be a good influence. How could you possibly be telling teens to stop doing drugs/etc if you are doing them yourself? Maybe you need to find a new profession. Also, if you need to smoke weed to enjoy food & your sex life, maybe you need to get some help. As far as relaxing, there are other techniques that work much better for that! As far as why you should stop, even though weed has some medicinal purposes (as in treatment for pain of glaucoma patients etc), it is still SMOKING and it still causes a risk for cancer. Oh, and the fact that it is still ILLEGAL.

Answer 5

stop smoking pot 28 times week

Answer 6

Weed is like a natural tranquilizer.The indians smoked it.Its good for glaucoma,migraines,asthma as it exspands the bronchol tubes much like an inhaler. It also helps cramps.Why stop something so good? Instead try to help legalize it in your area.In our area its a misdemeanor.The people who are really hypocritical are the police.They preach against weed while they guzzle beer.Plus gobs of them drink and drive.In our area a bunch of them had a party and one went out and hit someone right afterwards.Another cop had his daughter drive him home because he was too drunk to drive.She was only 12 years old so they used back roads.This is the truth maybe not all over but why beat yourself up over unfair laws? Alot of pot smokers I know are in management or they are accountants,or computer geeks or what have you they work 12 hours a day and want to relax whats so bad about that?

Answer 7

The memory loss is awful. I have seen it for real and it is not pretty. Also if you are working with teens you are setting a very poor example for the. How can you even think you are a good role model if you smoke pot? Just because you don't see what it is doing to your life try asking someone who knows you well and see what they say. You are most likely the last person to see what it is doing to your life.

Answer 8

dont you notice that you need it to make parts of your life more enjoyable? you should stop becuase it is mentally addictive. my friend cant do **** with out smoking pot and he's really different now. i dont care if people consider this a drug or not, it affects your personality and it does change you.

Answer 9

my ex smoked for as long as he could remember and i mean like EVERY SINGLE DAY. so all of a sudden he went cold turkey but then he went to the hospital, scared me to death. you are too important to leave this world and waste your time on something that can secretly ruin you inside.

Answer 10

because it's time to grow up

And how can you possibly be setting a good example to the kids you work with?